Philosophy of religion

Buddhism being a religion or a philosophy? When learning about the history of Buddhism some people will think Buddhism is a religion and others will think it is a philosophy. To me personally I feel Buddhism can be either a religion or a philosophy and there are many facts that can help back me up on it. According to dictionary.com Buddhism is “a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that life…

solution. 2. How did the religion/philosophy spread? Buddhism was spread through Missionaries, the Indian emperor Asoka greatly strengthened Buddhism by his support and sent Buddhist missionaries to Syria. Buddhism was spread to Southeast Asia and in the east and also to the Mediterrean in the west. 3. How many followers are there worldwide? There are roughly 350,000,000 supporters of Buddhism, which is about 6 percent of the world’s population 4. Is this religion monotheistic or…

heretics. Jews and Muslims were both seen as heretics. These views on Jews and Muslims, although there were conflicts between the three religions before,…

there is no awareness besides what the physical body supports. There is however, support for continuance past the grave, which is an endorsement of a survival hypothesis where his or her consciousness endures past death (Peterson, et al., Philosophy of Religion, p. 493). It is what H. H. Price refers to as a dream-like state; where images originating from physical human experience both positive and negative including those not brought to realization determine his or her afterlife…

|PAV10137547 | |Course: |Access to HE | | | | |Lecturer: |Jim Mawby | |Subject: |Philosophy | |Date: |7 Feb 2010 | Explain and assess one or more Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God Descartes applies the ‘Cogito ergo sum’ (‘I think therefore I am’)…

pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” or in other words, “Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?” (Philosophy of Religion The Origin of the Euthyphro Dilemma). The Divine Command theorist faces problems that will not allow them to be able to answer the Euthyphro dilemma. Either way, out of both the branches that the Divine Command theorist could pick, there…

to the affects of natural disasters and death, we grew ever distant from our original theistic state. Perhaps we abandoned our paradise because we only had knowledge of the good and lacked the simple knowledge and awareness of consequence. Many religions rely on this balance of good and evil such as Daoism and Buddhism. Free will certainly comes with its consequences, but only because we are morally aware do we recognize such juxtapositions. For example, there is a difference between existing as…

That question is, ‘if God is good and made us in His likeness, then why is there evil in the world?’ This question has plagued both theist and philosophers alike. I personally have encountered this very question in both Religious Quest, as well as Philosophy. While the latter concentrates on the logical problem of evil in order to argue that there can not be a perfect God who could then allow evil, the theist believes in an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God. I have to admit, I too…

Dr. Tom Morris, in his book Philosophy for Dummies, states “the existence of something is intelligible only if it has explanation” (“Philosophical Proofs on the Existence of God” 2). He goes on to discuss how there are three types of explanation: personal, scientific, and essential.…

of other moral evils. And, even if God created a world devoid of evil, both moral and natural, it is more than likely that any free being that God would create could, and most likely would, misappropriate their freedoms to do some evil. In Philosophy of Religion: Thinking About Faith, by Evans and Manis, it is also mentioned how it is unnecessary to have a theodicy as a rebuttal to the logical form of the problem of evil; it is good enough to know that there are possible reasons why God would…